From: Family Research Council [mailto:frcpub@frc.org] 
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 11:08 AM
Subject: Washington Watch Online Newsletter - January 2007


Overview from the Hill 

Your support at work in our nation's capital 

FRC is collaborating with Focus on the Family on an abstinence leadership workshop regarding the institutionalization of abstinence education in schools in light of the newly elected Congress. 

* FRC Government Affairs officials met with staff of Senator Sam Brownback (R - Kansas) regarding funding for the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force. 
* FRC Senior Fellow for Life Sciences David Prentice was a featured speaker at an FRC-cosponsored conference on Genetics & Eugenics at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He also provided policy advice to several pro-life Australian doctors. 
* FRC Human Rights Counsel Bill Saunders traveled to Rome, meeting with the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family and with the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life to discuss mutual cooperation on family and life issues. 
* FRC President Tony Perkins addressed churches in California and Missouri and was a guest on Dr. Dobson's radio show to discuss a litany of issues affecting America's families. 
* FRC continues releasing short, hard-hitting pamphlets with crucial educational information. The latest release focuses on adult stem cell treatments. Three tracts were also published through the American Tract Society on stem cells and cloning, same-sex "marriage," and what parents need to know about the Internet.